{"id":66294,"date":"2018-03-23T22:25:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T02:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/glaad-refutes-trumps-roadmap-to-implement-his-discriminatory-transgender-military-ban\/"},"modified":"2018-03-23T22:25:26","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T02:25:26","slug":"glaad-refutes-trumps-roadmap-to-implement-his-discriminatory-transgender-military-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/glaad-refutes-trumps-roadmap-to-implement-his-discriminatory-transgender-military-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"GLAAD refutes Trump’s roadmap to implement his discriminatory transgender military ban"},"content":{"rendered":"

GLAAD refutes Trump’s roadmap to implement his discriminatory transgender military ban<\/b><\/p>\n

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NEW YORK<\/strong> \u2013 GLAAD, the world\u2019s LGBTQ media advocacy organization, today expressed outrage over the Trump Administration\u2019s\u00a0latest announcement<\/a>\u00a0regarding their ongoing efforts to ban transgender soldiers from openly serving in any capacity within the United States armed\u00a0forces.\u00a0The fact that this memorandum was dumped late in a Friday night news cycle shows the flimsiness of the argument at the heart of this blatant excuse for discrimination.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump has made a continuous effort to attack LGBTQ people and erase us from the fabric of our country, and the proposed transgender military ban is perhaps his cruelest and most egregious campaign,\u201d\u00a0said Sarah Kate Ellis, President <\/strong>and<\/strong> CEO of GLAAD<\/strong>. \u201cThe majority of Americans support transgender military inclusion which has been proceeding seamlessly since it was first implemented, so we are left to assume that the Trump Administration\u2019s intention here is\u00a0solely\u00a0to stoke the fires of bias and hatred in this nation.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

In\u00a0four different challenges<\/a>, federal courts have blocked Trump\u2019s ban on open transgender military service from going into effect, declaring it likely to be unconstitutional. President Trump and Secretary of Defense\u00a0Mattis\u2019 efforts to modify the implementation of this discriminatory policy does not make it any less\u00a0unconstitutional.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Purging skilled and qualified military personnel runs counter to the support of the\u00a0majority<\/a>\u00a0of Americans in all fifty states who believe transgender people should be allowed to openly serve in the U.S. military.\u00a0Even Secretary of Defense\u00a0Mattis\u00a0has been on record\u00a0supporting<\/a>\u00a0open transgender service and\u00a0personally lobbied<\/a>\u00a0against\u00a0Rep.\u00a0Hartzler\u2019s\u00a0July 2017\u00a0amendment\u00a0which would have barred healthcare access to transgender military personnel.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to the National Center for Transgender Equality, there are currently over 15,000 transgender Americans currently serving in the United States armed forces. This proposed ban is part of a pattern of hateful and targeted erasure of the transgender community that the Trump Administration has carried out, which includes rescinding guidance on how our nation\u2019s schools should treat transgender students equally under Title IX, and most recently,\u00a0arguing<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0discriminating against homeless transgender women<\/a> is somehow justified because they could make others \u201cnot comfortable.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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